This question is for people who think they know more about Transsexualism than those of us who suffer from it?

I read every word of your post and I completely agree with you. I have seen my sister go through the exact same things over & over & over. From the second she decided to come out with her feelings when she was much younger until now. She is 50. She is beautiful. Intelligent beyond her years. Funny. Honest. Caring. Lovable. And even forgiving of those who have trashed her home several times & stolen anything they can get their hands on just because she is transgender. She has been brutally attacked several times just because she is transgender. Her life has been a living hell just because she chose to live the truth & not some lie. She has lost her parents,her friends,jobs,and more than I can mention.

I don't claim to know more about it than a transgender,but I thank God my sister has talked to me & helped me understand it. I am 100% in favor of her decision to transform physically into the person she was born to be. I love her with all my heart & respect her more than any other individual on the planet.

Transexuality is about being who you really are. And it horrifies me that some ignorant jack@sses can't accept another human being for having the guts to be honest about their sexuality. But like gays & lesbians & sometimes even bis...we are all persecuted by what I like to call judgemental fundies.

Peace & love to ALL transgenders,gays,lesbians & bisexuals. Be true to yourself & to hell with those who can't accept you for who you were born to be.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't see trans people as being much different from anyone else. Yes, things CAN be more difficult for them, but they aren't always. Trans people are not always suffering. They're like anyone else. We all have insecurities. We all have stress & anxiety. We may all suffer a bit at one point or another. We all struggle. Everyone should try to find good in a situation & do what they can to feel better about themselves. Whether you're gay, straight, trans, bi, or somewhere in between doesn't really matter. We're all people. I'm sure things are different for everyone, but I believe we can all find ways to understand how others feel, at least a little.

It seems to me that you're angry with people who try to tell you that it's stupid to want gender reassignment surgery, or hormones when you were born with that body. I'd be angry too. Please don't be angry with those of us who try to understand. I see no problem with trying to understand how others feel. I believe it helps us all get along a bit better.

Religious intolerance is used to justify institutionalized ignorant counterproductive attitudes towards people through no fault of their own, have a predetermined genetic predisposition that medical science has yet to fully investigate it's consistent genetic pattern of prescience.

Evolution in humans is still not fully understood and you have every right to be furious at those who second guess through religiously correct ignorance, what you are & how you need to become that person your parents denied you from becoming in order for you to have what most of us take for granted, a normal sense of self and who we are not just to the world, but who we are to those people who love us unconditionally without any reservations.

Please don't allow the lowest common denominator of hate-monger, anti-evolution religious ignoramuses to keep you from realizing what you need to be as a individual gender so that you can become that person you've been fighting against societal taboos and ignorant restrictions to become the gender you're most comfortable as.

Strip away the hatred-centric ignorance of religious slavery and most people who are capable of supporting you want exactly what everybody wants.

To be loved and to be accepted for what you are from the inside out, not what makes shallow people comfortable by forcing people to capitulate to a cookie-cutter version of what human genders are "supposed to be".

well in psychology they teach that transexuality is a disease but they also teach that numerous studies prove that people are born gay but it doesn't make sense since similar things cause both. so i think you're born transsexual your brain is more similar to the opposite genders but you just happen to have the wrong body. of course some people accept it it's similar to when someone doesn't accept their body for other reasons transsexuals don't accept it because of the wrong genitals but a lot of people learn to accept themselves without surgery.

I think it far more important that people become tolerant of transsexuality than argue about the suffixes.

Hey Erica

Unfortunately i think that question will be wasted because people aren't going to read it. People are selfish in general and don't care about something unless it directly effects them or applies to them in some form.

For the people who feel they need to hate transsexuals and come here dishing out more hate and phobia, they're just plain limited people. They're unable to empathise or see anything beyond themselves. That if it doesn't make sense to them then it therefore must be wrong and that's really my point, those kind of people aren't worth crap. They're just unintelligent with a narrow scope of the world we live in.

I don't mind if people misunderstand us, i don't expect people to automatically get it, but people should at least realise they don't have the right to make comments or conclusions based on ignorance. If you aren't a transsexual then you don't know how this feels and therefore you need to shut up unless you have something constructive to say.

I think that ultimately people should just stay out of our business.

Well, apparently, those people you're directing this towards are not here right now.

But I have a question for you--why would you do all this ranting about people who think transsexualism is a mental disorder/delusion after you phrase it as something you "suffer" from? If you mean "suffer" as in emotionally, I can get it. Even still, I wouldn't have said "suffer"...because you are who you are. Everyone has tough experiences, many of us based on some aspect of who we are (you're in the LGBT section...riddled with lesbians and gays and bisexuals, yes, but they all "suffer" because of who they are). Still, you're trans and you can't change it, and it just makes it sound like you're not happy with yourself because you're trans if you mean "suffer" that way. But my first thought was...actually, it comes off as "suffer" as in a mental condition or a medical illness.

But don't mind me...since I'm not trans, I couldn't possibly know ANYTHING about the issue...(sarcasm).

Erica, once again a deep and insightful question (and one that brought tears to my eyes).

It's such a shame that the people who would most benefit from considering it are the ones who won't bother reading it, or will dismiss it.

It's worth a star, anyway, so here's one.

Thank you Erica.

John,,All I can say to you is go perform an unnatural sex act with yourself.

I don't think anybody could understand how it feels but if it helps i support anyone in being who they are